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msgid "Hydrogen Tutorial"
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#. Tag: author
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msgid "<firstname>Antonio</firstname> <surname>Piraino</surname>"
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#. Tag: author
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msgid "<firstname>Sebastian</firstname> <surname>Moors</surname>"
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msgid "10/May/2017"
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#. Tag: para
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"You've just downloaded the latest version of Hydrogen and have it installed "
"successfully. Hydrogen may come in handy for the these tasks:"
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"It can be used as an advanced \"click\" machine helping you practicing (in "
"speed, precision and rudiments) drums, maybe with a custom pattern you wrote."
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"You want to learn how to properly play a song: you can \"write it down\" "
"inside Hydrogen (or just a few difficult parts of it). Doing the effort of "
"finding, splitting and reproducing the different parts of the songs will "
"improve your understanding of it. Also, using Hydrogen with your songs will "
"ensure that in future a quick glance at the songfile you have created will "
"bring the song up immediately to mind."
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"You can use Hydrogen with in combination with other software (Ardour, ...)"
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#. Tag: title
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#. Tag: para
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msgid "Before starting make sure you have a few things:"
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"The song to study on: either an audio-cd or (better) an .ogg or .mp3 for "
"optimal flexibility."
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"Optionally a rough layout of the song on paper: it may be useful to count "
"bars and different parts of the song that eventually will get into Hydrogen."
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msgid "The song we will work on has the following structure:"
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msgid "<emphasis role=\"bold\">Intro:</emphasis> 4 bars"
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msgid "<emphasis role=\"bold\">Verse:</emphasis> 8 bars"
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msgid "<emphasis role=\"bold\">Chorus:</emphasis> 8 bars"
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msgid "<emphasis role=\"bold\">Verse (with guitar):</emphasis> 8 bars"
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msgid "<emphasis role=\"bold\">Verse (with voice):</emphasis> 8 bars"
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msgid "<emphasis role=\"bold\">Final Riff:</emphasis> 4 bars"
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"Looking at this scheme we can see that some pattern repeats, so we'll use "
"this symbols in Hydrogen's Song Editor:"
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msgid "Chorus -> C"
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#. Tag: para
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"And to save up words on explanations we'll use two common TLA (Three Letters "
"Acronym ^_^):"
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msgid "LMB: left mouse button"
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"Well, now unplug your phone and launch Hydrogen from the shell: let's get to "
"work!"
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#. Tag: title
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msgid "Intro"
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#. Tag: para
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"The base pattern (Fig. 1 and 2) is 4 bars long (divided in 2 different bars, "
"each repeated 2 times, so it's [2a*2]+[2b*2]) and lasts for the whole song, "
"from the beginning to the end, riff included; most of the time (intro and "
"riff excluded) this base pattern is repeated 2 times to reach the commonly "
"used 8 bars for each part of the song (A,B,C). Before starting let's set the "
"speed to 98bpm (HINT HINT you can find out by yourself the speed of the song "
"while playing it with your favourite media player and following the rhythm "
"by clicking repeatedly the backslash key in Hydrogen) and from the menu "
"<quote>Grid Resolution</quote> let's set '16'. To create a new pattern "
"select the instrument <quote>Closed HH</quote>, click on RMB and choose "
"<quote>Fill Notes</quote>: the first two bars will be filled up. Then insert "
"manually the beats on Snare Jazz and Kick as indicated in the 2 pictures "
"below and there we have the base pattern for our song. Note how the beats on "
"the hi-hat have different 'hardness': beats falling on the beginning of the "
"bar are set at [0.78], the others at [0.50] (you can check that on the lower "
"stat bar of Hydrogen), in order to give groove the song."
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"Before we start writing down verses there are 4 intro bars, all equals to "
"each other, except for the last one which at the end has an open hi-hat. We "
"should do then:"
msgstr ""

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"Rename the first pattern in the Song Editor with RMB click on the name "
"<quote>Empty Pattern</quote> and change it to <quote>intro_a</quote>, for "
"example."
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"Add two 'X' near the first one (which represent the second and the third bar)"
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#. Tag: para
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"RMB in Song Editor on the newly created pattern, choose <quote>copy</quote>, "
"then choose a name (ex. <quote>intro_b</quote>) and automagically you will "
"have a new one right under."
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#. Tag: para
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"Delete the last 2 beats of <quote>Closed HH</quote> and move them on "
"<quote>Open HH</quote>."
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"Select '32' from <quote>Grid Resolution</quote> and add another 2 beats "
"right near the previous ones."
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"Adjust the hardness of these 4 beats so that the first is [0.78] while the "
"other 3 [0.20] to simulate a longer opening."
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#. Tag: title
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"Since we have written the base pattern, now we should already know the "
"basis. To create the first verse we just have to copy from the Song Editor "
"the pattern <quote>intro_a</quote> and rename, say, to <quote>A-B-C_1</"
"quote>, because it is the first bar of the verse that eventually will also "
"fit for the bridge (B) and the chorus (C). <emphasis role=\"bold\">Pay "
"attention</emphasis>, why can't we just add 2 more 'X' next to this pattern? "
"Because in the first bar there is a <quote>Crash</quote> beat which ends the "
"previous intro, therefore the two bars are not completely equal; you have to "
"copy the pattern <quote>A-B-C_1</quote> and rename it to <quote>A-B-C_2</"
"quote>, cutting the <quote>Crash</quote> beat cited before."
msgstr ""

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"Same thing for the following 2 bars: just copy into the Song Editor the "
"pattern in Fig. 2, rename it according to the previous ones and add two "
"'X' (because they're identical), you should reach number '8' as shown in "
"Fig. 4."
msgstr ""

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"The 4 remaining bars of the verse are more or less the same of what we've "
"just written, so why redo everything from scratch? Bars number 5,6,7 are "
"virtually identical to the previous ones so we just have to add 2 crosses to "
"pattern <quote>A-B-C_2</quote> and one to <quote>A-B-C_3+4</quote> taking "
"care of renaming the patterns logically (so to understand how the song moves "
"around the Song Editor), while in the eighth bar there is a fill which "
"closes the verse. We have to copy+paste in a new line a pattern already "
"written (ex. <quote>A-B-C_3+4</quote>), rename it to <quote>A-B-C_8</quote> "
"and modify it as in Fig. 4. Note how in this case too the three <quote>Snare "
"Jazz</quote> beats on fourth bar have hardness properly tuned with [0.10], "
"[0.20] and [0.78]; you can't see it in the picture but also the two final "
"beats of <quote>Tom Mid</quote> are both 'touched' to [0.50], after all it's "
"only just a small fill, better not beat hard on the drums :)"
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 4</emphasis> Eighth bar of the first verse."
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#. Tag: para
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 5</emphasis> Intro and first verse in the Song "
"Editor."
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">WARNING!</emphasis> if you reached this point "
"without saving your work, NOW is the good time to do that. A simple [CTRL+S] "
"followed by the name of the songfile and you'll be ok. If you want to add "
"some more infos, LMB on 'S' button of the Song Editor and change the fields "
"as you like: these infos will be shown upon opening of the file."
msgstr ""

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"Now that we're done with the first verse you should have an idea of how the "
"whole thing works: the first bridge is made of the same 8 bars (4+4) with a "
"slight change at the end of the fourth, which forces us to create a 'custom' "
"fourth bar while the others are easily added with our friendly little cross "
"('X')."
msgstr ""

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"Let's take the latest pattern created as sample (<quote>A-B-C_8</quote>), "
"let's copy and rename it to <quote>Bridge1_4</quote> (i.e. fourth bar of "
"first bridge) and modify it as in Fig. 6. We have quickly completed the "
"bridge! The Song Editor now should appear as follows in Fig. 7. Looking "
"closely one should ask why the fifth bar of the bridge (17th bar of the "
"whole song) isn't assigned to the pattern <quote>A-B-C_1</quote>; the answer "
"is that the pattern has also a <quote>Crash</quote> which is not present in "
"<quote>A-B-C_2+5+6</quote>."
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 6</emphasis> Fourth bar of the first bridge."
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 7</emphasis> The Song Editor with the first "
"bridge."
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"Now we can build up quickly the remaining parts of the song: after this "
"bridge there is another verse, then a bridge and a chorus, which are mostly "
"the same so we just need to create different pattern in a few cases (along "
"with this guide you will find the song file with the whole song). Of course "
"one can write as many lines in the Song Editor as the bars in the song but a "
"whole song would become difficult to follow, plus the songfile would be "
"bigger."
msgstr ""

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"Around half song there are two riffs: each one is 2 bars long but actually "
"the pattern is the same, just the other instruments play something that we "
"will see in the last riff of this song (where drums too play the pattern of "
"the riff)."
msgstr ""

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"In this riff the drums play the same pattern we already know for one bar "
"(see Fig. 1) while in the second bar only beats two times (Fig. 8), then the "
"pattern again and then again two beats with a small final fill (Fig. 9); "
"again the open hi-hat is done with beats of different intensity: [0.78] and "
"[0.20]."
msgstr ""

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#. Tag: title
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"After the riff we have half job done. We just have to write down two verses, "
"one bridge, a chorus repeated 3 times and the same riff at the end."
msgstr ""

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"The second part of the song is slightly different from the previous one "
"because we have a few hi-hat opening during the verses and every 4 bars "
"there's a small fill almost everytime: it's easier to start from scratch a "
"new set of pattern (i.e. <quote>A-B-C-*</quote>) in the Song Editor copying "
"them with a suffix like '_hh' to show the presence of the <quote>Open HH</"
"quote>. As noted in the introduction of this guide, Jeff Porcaro puts much "
"of his skills playing the song and this makes the difference between a song "
"played from a raw and \"cold\" transcription on paper (or on Hydrogen): "
"therefore the following parts of the song will try to be faithful to the "
"original piece, but another 'ear' could give another written layout of the "
"same part: after all this doesn't matter so much since we are showing how a "
"program works, not to play like Porcaro :)"
msgstr ""

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"In Fig. 10 here is how is the section in the Song Editor of the two verses "
"and the bridge following the first riff; as you can see the first bars "
"(48-50 according to the Song Editor's enumeration) are already written "
"before while the others (51-71) are new. Moreover there a few pattern 'ad "
"hoc' identified by <quote>A-B-C-3a_hh</quote> (Fig. 11 to see an example) "
"and <quote>A-B-C-4a_hh</quote> since both have a few changes not present in "
"any pattern written up to now."
msgstr ""

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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 10</emphasis> Third and fourth bars in the Song "
"Editor."
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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 11</emphasis> Seventh bar of the third bridge."
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"After the third bridge we repeat the chorus: the first time the "
"<quote>Stick</quote> is used instead of the <quote>Snare Jazz</quote> and we "
"don't play the <quote>Kick</quote> (even if it may sound the opposite since "
"the bass guitar does play here, so we have put the same the kick beats "
"softly at [0.50]), while the second and third time the chorus goes on there "
"are a few bars different, as shown from patterns <quote>C3_*</quote>. In "
"Fig. 12 the pattern <quote>C3_6+7 &amp; C4_3</quote> (slightly "
"different ...) which criptycally identify the sixth and seventh bar of the "
"third chorus AND the third bar of the fourth chorus: if you think this is "
"confusing, you may find out your own method :-)"
msgstr ""

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"<emphasis role=\"bold\">Fig. 12</emphasis> Pattern <quote>C3_6+7 &amp; C4_3</"
"quote>."
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"The song ends repeating a slightly different riff we have met before: the "
"first 2 bars are the same (i.e. pattern + 2 beats), while the in third bar "
"the drum plays actually with the other instruments (Fig. 13) to finally end "
"as always."
msgstr ""

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"And this is the end. The goal of this little tutorial is giving a quick "
"overview of the most common functions of Hydrogen: this piece of software "
"can also run for other purposes, like an advanced 'click' played with the "
"drum, or to loop playing some part of a song difficult to catch; however, as "
"in other things, analyzing the song itself helps the comprehension and here "
"too, Hydrogen can be helpful reducing the time needed to write down a "
"pattern and tune it."
msgstr ""

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"For comments, suggestions, corrections, you can use the Hydrogen mailing "
"lists (hydrogen.sf.net)"
msgstr ""
